✨Does she really have something that you don’t?✨ I often get told that being strong and toned, drinking my shake, or getting my workout in every morning is “easy” for me because I’m already a healthy person. And I kind of chuckle at it every time. I think it’s easy to look at virtually anyone who “has it all” in a way that we lack and make excuses like this to ourselves...that we wouldn’t be able to do it because clearly SHE has something that we don’t. Well I don’t have something you don’t. Seriously. I come from a family that has never valued exercise and lives by the motto you NEED to eat everything on your plate so that you don’t starve to death. I used to…drink my weight in alcohol at college and my favourite meal in high school and beyond was Pizza! When I started gaining weight in my early 20s I binge ate, starved myself and went to the gym to get fit with no rhyme or rhythm to what I was doing. Switching to have just one glass of wine now and then and starting this new weird thing called meditation, and reading personal development books, exerciseing daily and making healthy food choices. I was afraid that meditation would make me weird, and I was afraid that taking things out of my diet would make me lose out on a part of my life. ❤️ But when I started doing all of these things, my life completely exploded into something so unexpected and so beautiful that I did not want to STOP doing these things. I became stronger, toned, flexible, my stomach problems went away and I rid myself of my anxieties. ❤️ ✨I found a way to give myself some serious relief to what I was going through and I now do it every single day because it makes me feel amazing.✨ The healthy and happy part is the AFTER EFFECT of my lifestyle changes. They didn’t come before. I never had some secret sauce to being fit or eating well. It didn’t come naturally to me. But I DID stay consistent long enough with my new lifestyle to see results. ✨What type of after effect do you want in your life? ✨What do you need to work on to get you there? #weightloss #eatclean #shakeshot #exercise #fitnessmotivation (at Chateaugay, New York)